Fender for cars.



No. 733,048. PATENTED JULY 7, 1903. W. JOHNSTON.

FENDER FORIGAES.

APPLIOATIONIILED AUG. 30, 1902.

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Patented July '7, 1903. PATENT OFFICE.

- WILLIAM JOHNSTON, OF MILLERSBURG, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MILLERSBURG, OHIO.

FENDER FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 733,048, dated July 7, 1903. Application filed August 30, 1902. fierial No. 121,649. (No model.]

To allwhcm it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Millersburg, in the county of Holmes and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Fen-l fication.

This invention relates to car-fenders; and it consists of a supporting-frame pivotally connected to a car-truck independent of the oar-body and which will not be adected by any springing movement of the body, but will always remain in contact with the track, said frame being provided with a tilting netting-frame adapted to be tilted by the weight of a person falling upon or being thrown thereon, and thus elevate them from the track, and which will also be automatically maintained in its elevated position, and thus protect the occupants and prevent injury to The invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claim.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of a portion of a cartruck and car-body with the improved device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of a cartruck and a plan view of the improved de- The device may be applied to any form of railway-car truck, but will be more particularly applicable to electric-railway cars, and

is shown applied to a conventional form of truck usually employed beneath cars of this character, 10 representing the truck-frame, 11 the forward axle, 12 the forward truckwheels, and 13 a portion of a car-body, all these parts being of the usual construction.

The improved device consists of a supportbers 14 15, preferably united at their rear ends and pivotally connected at 16 directly to the truck-frame 10 and remote from the body portion of the car and just in advance of the forward axle 11, as shown, the object being to preventany springing movement ofthe car-body from affecting the supporting-frame,

termediate transverse connecting member 19, located at a considerable distance below its center, as shown, and is also provided with spaced rods 20, conforming to the curvatureof the frame and forming the netting to engage the persons and support them when caught by the fender. It preferred, the netting may be formed of ropes, wire, or other yieldable material interwoven lor otherwise arranged and connected to the frame 17 instead of the bars 20, as the results produced would be the same, and I do not, therefore, wish to be limited to any specific form of the surface of the frame 17.

The curved forward ends of the bars 14 and 15 are coupled to the intermediate transverse bar 19 by means of the clips 21, which form journals in which the nettingframe will swing vertically with relation to the supporting members 14 15, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. i

A transverse brace-bar 22 may be secured to the spaced members 14 15 of the supporting-frame to prevent their lateral displacement at their forward ends, as shown.

It will be noted that the frame 17' is extended laterally some distance beyond the outside lines of the truck-frame 10 and will correspond in width or be somewhat wider than the body 13 of the car, so that it will sweep the track clear of all objects with which the car-body would be liable to engage.

23 and 2 1 are springs, which are connected by their upper ends to the studs 25 26,10- cated on the members of the supportingframe 1 1 15, and by their lower ends in any suitable manner to the frame 17 or its attachments near the lower endlof said frame or at any point below its pivot-joint, so that the springs when the netting-frame is depressed exert a constant pulling force to hold 100 vious.

the same normally in its operative position, as indicated in full lines in Fig. 1,while one or more chains 29 will be arranged between the upper ends of the netting-frame and the supporting frame to limit the downward movement of the forward end, as will be ob- These chains 29 may be adjusted to limit the downward movement of the roller 18 and the forward end of the netting-frame. When thus constructed,anyobject with which the netting-frame comes in contact, if it be large enough to extend above the pivotal point 19, will exert a force against the upper portion of the netting-frameand overcome the resiliency of the springs and tilt the upper end of the frame downward and correspondingly elevate the lower end, as indicated in Fig. 1 in dotted lines, thus elevating the object upon the frame clear of the track.

It will be noted that the relative locations of the ends of the springs 23 24 are such that when the netting-frame is in its elevated position the springs will be elevated above the pivotal line 19, so that they will exert their force after the elevation of the netting-frame.

,flanged Wheels 31 32, connected to the side members by hangers 33 34, which are located near the rear end of the frame and at the nearest possible point to the forward truckwheels 12, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, so that l a comparatively short distance occurs between the wheels 31 32 and the wheels 12 and a com parativelylon g distance between the wheels 31 32 and the netting-frame 17. This arrangement also provides a very sensitivelyacting device, much more so than in structures wherein the bearing-wheels are located beneath or in close proximity to the nettingframe.

The parts will preferably be made of steel,

suitably braced and supported, and may be modified and changed inminor particulars without afiecting the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- A car-fender consisting of a supportingframe movably connected to a cartruck, a netting frame pivoted to the supportingframe, flexible connections between the net- WILLIAM JOHNSTON.

Witnesses;

W. F. GARVER, LOUIS MILEY. 

